In the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth criticized this man's artificial diction in works like "Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West." This m
In the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth criticized this man's artificial diction in works like "Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West." This man drew upon a Welsh legend that Edward I had all bards there put to death in a Pindaric ode, The Bard. In another poem, "the pensive Selima reclined / Gazed on the lake below" before "she tumbled headlong in" and drowns; that poem is "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat." The speaker of another poem watches schoolboys play and does not tell them of the sorrows they will experience in life, reasoning "where ignorance is bliss, / ‘Tis folly to be wise." For 10 points, name this author who, in addition to "Ode to a Distant Prospect of Eton College,"  wrote "the curfew tolls the knell of parting day"  in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
In the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth criticized this man's artificial diction in works like "Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West.
Thomas {Gray}